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Social bookmarking

For Internet users social bookmarking is a way to organize, store, share and search bookmarks of web pages. The social bookmarking system is a new system in which the users can save links to web pages which they want to share and remember. Many of the bookmarks are often public but if it has the feature to save privately it can be saved. It can also be shared with specific number of people and groups. The users can view the saved bookmarking according to the chronological order via search engine. The social bookmark services helps the users to arrange the bookmarks with informal tags as compared to the system of folders. It will helps the people to view the bookmarks related to a chosen tag. For the users list of bookmarks many social bookmarking services offer web feeds organize which also include lists organized by tags.
When the bookmark is saved, organized and shared it helps the subscribers to know about the new bookmarks. Social bookmarking has become very popular and many new features have been added like comments on bookmarks, ratings on bookmarks, e-mailing of bookmarks, etc.

The concept of social bookmarking dates back to 1996 when List.com was launched. After three years of its launch online bookmark services was launched. In the late 2003 del.ico.us became leader in tagging and thus came up with the word social bookmarking. Then came many new sites like Nevtvouz, Furl, Simpy and Stumbleupon. Diigo and Ma.gnolia entered the field of bookmarking in 2006. By 2007 many international companies like IBM came in the field of social software market. Then BBC added social bookmarking links in their sites. Social bookmarking has many advantages like the users can classify the tag based Internet resources. Social bookmarking has become a powerful to promote the website. Apart from the advantages there are certain drawbacks also like it has no set of keywords, some of the tags carry more then one meaning, spelling errors can cause mistagging, synonym can make the tag unclear. Social bookmarking is also prone to corruption. There are some services some of the popular social bookmarking sites are GiveALink.org, Cloudytags.com, Propeller.com, StumbleUpon, Simpy, Blue Dot, My Web, Digg, Thoof, BookmarkSync, SiteBar, Newsvine, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Diigo, Reddit and Furl.

Not many people what does bookmark stands for. Bookmarks are basically the web page locations popularly known as URLs. This helps the users to easily access the web pages. Social bookmarking is something different and is a practice of saving bookmarks in a public website. If you want to have a collection of bookmarks the first thing that you have to do is to register with social bookmarking site. It is very helpful if you want to collect a set of resources. Social bookmarking helps to access the website in future that you have saved. This helps to organize information and can accessed any time you want.